· Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering , Hamedan University of Technology, Feb.2012- Aug. 2012
· Assistant Professor, School of Chemical Engineering , Iran University of Science and Technology, Since Aug. 2012
Unit Operation lab
Journal papers:
· 1- S. Movahedirad, A. MolaeiDehkordi, NielsGerbrandDeen, Martin van SintAnnaland, and J. A. M. (Hans) Kuipers, Novel Phenomenological Discrete Bubble Model of Freely Bubbling Dense Gas–Solid Fluidized Beds: Application to Two-Dimensional Beds, AIChE Journal, 58 (11),3306:33217,2012.
· 2- Salman Movahedirad, Mohsen Ghafari and AsgharMolaeiDehkordi, Discrete Bubble Model (DBM) for the Prediction of Bubble Behavior in 3-D Fluidized Beds, Chemical Engineering and technology, 35(5), 929:936, 2012.
· 3- S. Movahedirad, A. MolaeiDehkordi, M. Banaei, N. G. Deen, M. van SintAnnaland, and J. A. M. Kuipers, On the Bubble Size Distribution in 2-D Gas-Solid Fluidized Beds, I & EC research, 51(18), 6571:6579, 2012.
· 4- M. Bahrami, E. Nattaghi, S. Movahedirad, S. Ranjbarian and F. Farhadi, The agglomeration kinetics of aluminum hydroxide in Bayer process, Powder Technology, 224 , 351:355, 2012.
· 5- Salman Movahedirad, Mohsen Ghafari and AsgharMolaeiDehkordi , A Novel Model for Predicting the Dense Phase Behavior of 3D Gas-Solid Fluidized Beds , Chemical Engineering and technology, 37(1), 103:112, 2014.
· 6- Salman Movahedirad, AsgharMolaeiDehkordi, EsmaeelAbbaszadeMolaei, Mehdi Haghi, Mohammad Banaei, Johannes AM Kuipers, Bubble Splitting in a Pseudo2D Gas ‐ Solid Fluidized Bed for Geldart B-Type Particles , Chemical Engineering and technology, 37(12), 2096:2102, 2014.
· 7- Salman Movahedirad and Ali Akbar Safekordi, Effect of Process Variables on Growth Kinetics of Lactose Particles in a Wet Spray Fluidized Bed Granulator , IJChE, 2015, accepted for publication.
· 8- MehranEhsani, Salman Movahedirad, ShahrokhShahhosseini and MahshidAshtiani,The Effects of Restitution and Specularity Coefficients on the Solid-liquid Fluidized Bed Hydrodynamics, Chem. eng.& Technol. under review.
· 9- Salman Movahedirad and AbolghasemDehghanLotfabad, Bubble formation on a single orifice in a gas solid fluidized bed using digital image analysis, Chem. eng.& Technol. under review.
· 10- MehranEhsani, Salman Movahedirad and ShahrokhShahhosseini, The effect of particle properties on the heat transfer characteristics of a fluidized bed heat exchanger, Int . J . Therm . Sci. under review.
· 11- S. Azarfar, S. Movahedirad, A.A. Sarbanha, R. Norouzbeigi, B. Beigzadeh, M. Ansarian, Low cost and new design of Transient Hot-Wire technique for the thermal conductivity measurement of fluids, Int . J . Therm . Sci. under review.
· 12- F. Sobhanian, S. Movahedirad and M.T.Sadeghi, Non-intrusive concentration measurements of chemical processes using laser induced fluorescence, IJChE, accepted for publication.
Conference Contributions:
1. M. B. Babaheydari, E. Nattaghi, S. Movahedirad, S.Ranjbarian, F. Farhadi, “Agglomeration kinetics of Aluminum Hydroxide precipitation in Bayer Process” (in Persian), 12 national congress of chemical engineering, Sahand University, Tabriz, Dec, 2008.
2. S. Movahedirad, A. MolaeiDehkordi, Time- averaged circulation pattern of solids in a two dimensional gas-solid fluidized bed, 3rd national conference on CFD applications in chemical and oil industries, 18 May 2011, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran.
3. AsgharMolaeiDehkordi, Salman Movahedirad, EsmaeelAbbaszadehMolaei, Mehdi Haghi, Transient Simulation of mass transfer and hydrodynamics in the entrance region of a two-dimensional channel, 3rd national conference on CFD applications in chemical and oil industries, 18 May 2011, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran.
4. S. Movahedirad and N. Attar, Numerical study of heat transfer of nanofluids in entrance region of a circular pipe, 1stProc.eng. Conf., Tehran, 2014.
5. S. Azarfar, S. Movahedirad and R. Norouzbeigi, main parameters in the desin of Transient hot wire apparatus for the measurement of thermal conductivity of nanofluids, 15th Iranian national congress of chemical engineering, Tehran, Feb. 2015.
6. M. Ehsani, S. Shahhosseini andS. Movahedirad, The hydrodynamics of liquid-solid fluidized beds using CFD , 15th Iranian national congress of chemical engineering, Tehran, Feb. 2015.
